Providing meaningful metrics for open-source projects has long been a
challenge, as simply measuring downloads, commits, or GitHub stars typically
doesn’t say much about the health or diversity of a project. It’s a
challenge the Linux Foundation’s Community Health Analytics Open Source
Software (CHAOSS) project is
looking to help solve. At the 2019
Open Source Summit North America (OSSNA), Sean Goggins, one of the founding
members of CHAOSS, outlined what the group is currently doing and why its
initial efforts didn’t work out as expected.

Source: LWN.net – [$] CHAOSS project bringing order to open-source metrics